James S. Moy is professor and former Dean of the College of the Arts at the University of South Florida.  After training as a studio artist, Moy went on to graduate study at Cal Arts where he became interested in happenings and performance art. This led him to complete advanced studies in stage direction and eventually a PhD with a dual focus on playwriting and performance history.

Author of Marginal Sights - Staging the Chinese in America and editor of several volumes of Theatre Journal, Moy has published over forty scholarly articles and reviews in refereed journals. A specialist in racial representation, he has lectured internationally from Nanjing and Kuala Lumpur to Ulan Ude, Stockholm, Venice, Edinburgh, Thessaloniki, Aberystwyth, Tampere, London.

Moy taught at the University of Texas (Austin), the University of Oregon, and Northwestern University. He was Chair/Professor of the Department of Theater and Drama at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, where he served for over twenty years. In 2003 he left the University of Wisconsin to serve as Dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico and subsequently Dean/Chair Professor of the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. He moved to Canada to serve as Dean of Fine Art at Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) and Provost, Vice President Academic and Research at Nova Scotia College of Art & Design (NSCAD) before returning to a Florida Professorship and the Decanal post at the University of South Florida.